Washing-machine



(No Model.)

A. M. WILSON.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 389,089. Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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ALBERT MILTON \VILSON, OF GREENLEAF, KANSAS.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,039, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed June 4, 1887. Serial No. 240,262.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MILTON WIL- son, of Greenleaf, in the county of Washington and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved \Vashing-Machiue, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to clothes-washing machines, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient machine of this character, which may be worked easily, to quickly and thoroughly cleanse the clothes, and with economy of time and labor of the operator.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the washing-machine, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is-to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a vertical sectional elevation of my improved washing-machine with the op crating-levers broken away. Fig. 2 is an inner face view of one of the drive-wheels and part of its lever. Fig. 3 is an under side view of the upper agitator-arm clamp-plate; and Fig. 4 is a top view of the bed-plate of the agitator and its connected shaft, and with two of the arms removed.

The tub A of the washingmachine, into which the clothes to be washed and a suitable cleansing liquid will be placed, is provided with a removable cover, 13, to which the operating parts of the machine are connected, as next described.

A metal bed-plate, O, which is bolted or screwed to the cover B, is provided with opposite standards, 0 c, in which is fitted a shaft, D, on which are placed loosely the two wheelsE F, on the opposing faces of which are formed bevel gear-teeth e f, respectively, which engage diametrically-opposite teeth 9 etc. bevel-pinion, G, which is fitted to the squared upper end of the shaft of the agitator or washing-head presently described. The wheels E F are preferably provided with socket-s at their outer faces and upper parts, and in these sockets are bolted the lower ends (No model.l

of levers or handles H 1, respectively, by bolts h a, as shown in Fig. 1.

The agitator J is made with a lower or bed plate, K, which has a square boss, 70, rising from its center and upper face, and above this boss, and fixed to it, is the agitator-shaft L, which is journaled in a round hole in a hearing, 0, fixed to and pendent from the plate 0 of the machine. The squared upper end, Z, of the shaft L fits a hole in the pinion G, which is held in place on the shaft by a cot-terpiu, M, passed through the shaft above the pinion, and this pin holds the shoulder at the top of the boss is snugly to the bottom of the shaft-bearing, thus preventing vertical play of the agitator while allowing its free rotation in horizontal plane.

The upper face of the agitator-plate K is provided with a series of sockets, N, preferably four in number, and which radiate from the square or flat side faces of the boss l: to the four corners of the plate, which preferably has a generally square form, as shown in Fig. 4. Into these sockets N there are fitted the upper horizontally-ranging parts, 0, ofthe agitator arms or heaters O, which are about as thick as the depth of the sockets N, so as to stand for the most part level with the upper face of the plate K, and the inner ends of the arms 0 are bent upward to form lugs or flanges 0, which are adapted to correspondinglyshaped sockets 19, made in the under side of the cap or upper plate, 1?, of the agitator, said plate 1? having a central hole, 19, fitting the boss it of the bed-plate K, and also having screw-bolt holes 19 which register with like holes, is, in the plate K, and whereby, when the arms 0 are in their sockets N, screwbolts It, passed through the holes 19 k", will bind the agitator-arms securely to place when the bolt-nuts r are tightened. It is obvious that the entrance of the lugs 0' into the sockcts p of the cap-plate P prevents withdrawal of the agitator-arms from the plates, and the fit of the arms into the sockets N of the plate K prevents lateral shifting or shaking of the arms; hence they will be held truly and rigidly in the head for most effective and noiseless action when the agitator is operated in the tub. The lower pendent portions of two diametrically opposite agitatorarms are formed with elongated loops 0' while the lower pendent parts of the other two dian1etrically-opposite arms have a single thickness, as plain bars 0 preferably rounded at their extremities; but, if preferred, all the agitatorarms may be formed with loops 0*, as the average work to be done by the machine may require. The loops 0 serve as receptacles, into or upon which stockings, collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs, and other small pieces to be Washed may be hung.

The operation of the machine is very simple and effective, and as follows: After'the washing-fluid is placed in the tub and the clothes are placed in the tub and in the agitator-loops, as required or preferred, and after the covcr B, carrying the agitator, is adjusted to the tub, the lever-handles H I will be grasped and oscillated simultaneously in opposite directions and alternately, thereby imparting reverse partial rotations to the drivewheels E F, and through them and the pinion G giving quick reverse rotary motions to the agitator, which will very quickly and thoroughly loosen and remove, the dirt from the clothes and without greatly fatiguing the operator, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a washingmachine, the agitator com.- prising a bed-plate, K, provided with a central square or flat sided boss, 70, and radial sockets N, angularly-bent arms 0, having their upper parts, 0, fitted in the sockets N, and provided with lugs 0 at their inner ends, anda cap-plate, P, having a central hole, 10, fitting the boss. 70 of plate K, and provided with socketsp, receiving the lugs 0 of arms 0, bolts R, fastening the plates K P together, and a shaft, L, connected to the plate K and adapted to receive a driving pinion or device, substantially as shown and described.

ALBERT MILTON \VILSON.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE XV. YOUNG, JOHN F. GARNER. 

